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As the situation has worsened with the latest release of Safari I'm really interested to globally setup Pi-Hole on a VPS via docker and use it in combination with VPN (Strongswan) for all of my devices (also mobile). Has anybody had success with such a setup yet?
At the end of the day, that’s really all you need as a technical user, so I couldn’t justify he rest of what came with pi-hole, which I believe targets a less tech-savvy crowd.
YMMV and I’m very happy Pi-hole exists, I think I’m just not the target audience.
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EDIT: see here[0] for an example configuration.
This might be an alternative for people who are too lazy for setting up a pi-hole or desire things to be a couple of ms faster: https://simplednscrypt.org/
My goodness the internet is a dumpster fire without it. So many pages lagging and slow to load. Things I wanted to click that jumped when an ad loaded resulting in miss clicks. Annoying things following me around.
It was especially bad on mobile with the GDRP/Cookie notices and ad's to the point that on my iPhone SE some pages had a thin smear of the actual content no taller than a single line of text. News sites were especially bad for this.
With the experiment ended my pi-hole and ad blockers are now set to very on (and updated to this version and can confirm the block list went from 100,000 to 89,000) and I am much happier. Seems about 20% of the traffic on my network is blocked now which explains why some pages performed so awfully.
The ad industry really needs to up its game because the current state of the web is just horrible.
Like I get depreciating stuff but this seems like it’s still very much in active use? No plan B/transition?
As the situation has worsened with the latest release of Safari I'm really interested to globally setup Pi-Hole on a VPS via docker and use it in combination with VPN (Strongswan) for all of my devices (also mobile). Has anybody had success with such a setup yet?
One thing to consider though is becoming a dns resolver for any random thing on the net. What I did for this was create a bash script that adds the visiting ip to iptables whitelist. Created an impossible-to-guess php page (pi admin uses php so it’s already installed and ready to go) which takes the REMOTE_ADDR and passes it to the bash script to add to iptables. Makes it super easy to allow ip’s when isp changes address or when visiting family/friends and they want to use it.
Just recently I experimented going without my pi-hole or any ad blocker software for 4 weeks to see what would happen. My goodness the internet is a dumpster fire without it. So many pages lagging and slow to load. Things I wanted to click that jumped when an ad loaded resulting in miss clicks. Annoying things following me around. It was especially bad on mobile with the GDRP/Cookie notices and ad's to the point that…
As the situation has worsened with the latest release of Safari I'm really interested to globally setup Pi-Hole on a VPS via docker and use it in combination with VPN (Strongswan) for all of my devices (also mobile). Has anybody had success with such a setup yet?
I have run pi-hole on the cheapest tier of Rackspace cloud server for 2+years now with great success. It’s wonderful. Just configure my routers dhcp to set my pi ip for dns and no ads anywhere (YouTube, streaming [except Hulu unfortunately], and general browsing). It’s especially nice now that it seems every company is offering their own streaming apps with ads. Recent example was I wanted to watch an action sports v…
Just recently I experimented going without my pi-hole or any ad blocker software for 4 weeks to see what would happen. My goodness the internet is a dumpster fire without it. So many pages lagging and slow to load. Things I wanted to click that jumped when an ad loaded resulting in miss clicks. Annoying things following me around. It was especially bad on mobile with the GDRP/Cookie notices and ad's to the point that…
Why four weeks? Surely you could have reached a similar conclusion in a day, or less? Or did you learn anything in that time that couldn't have been learnt in a short burst of unprotected internet activity?
I also got to see how they were affected for work, study and play over weekends and weekdays.
I did notice I started to wait longer for pages to load with the ad's so that I would not accidentally click on them while they loaded in. That and I got generally annoyed by the web experience in general.